Most funding newsletters rank by award size, so everyone reads the same five listings and applies to the same programs. Funding Friday ranks for structural oddity instead — the requirement, the carve-out or the unusual role that changes who should actually apply. Plus the two newest pieces from the OpenGrants blog, summarized by what they claim rather than teased.
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Read the blog while you waitThe two newest posts from the blog. Each one gets a dated topic kicker, the headline, and a two-sentence summary that states the claim the piece actually makes — so you can tell from the email whether it is worth your click.
Five open grants. Each carries the funder and geography, a fixed data strip, and one sentence on why it earned the slot. The strip is always the same three fields in the same order, so you can scan five programs without re-learning the layout each time.
Where each field comes from — not a sample listing.
A co-funding requirement. A pass-through lending role where you do not build anything and instead run a loan fund. An eligibility carve-out that disqualifies the obvious applicants. Programs get picked for the structural feature that changes who should apply — not for the size of the pot.
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We would rather skip a week than print a wrong deadline.
You get five programs you were unlikely to surface yourself, with the deadline and the eligibility line already pulled, and a reason each one is unusual enough to be worth twenty minutes. Nonprofits, startups, small businesses and the grant writers working for them all read the same issue.
Each pick is framed to show what it funds and what it signals — which structures are being tried, where the carve-outs are landing, and how money is moving across categories and geographies week over week.
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Both, deliberately. Each pick is framed so a seeker learns what it funds and a funder learns what it signals about where money is moving. Within grant seekers there is no segmentation — nonprofits, startups, small businesses and the grant writers working for them all get the same issue.
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